A few weeks ago we announced that Apple had acquired Xnor.ai, a company that works with artificial intelligence and machine learning, for about $ 200 million. Although those of Cupertino have not shown the objectives of the purchase of this company, there is evidence that using your technology could make Siri better in future updates. Today we know that Xnor.ai worked at the Maven project of the Pentagon, a project dedicated to the analysis of millions of data from the United States Department of Defense and Apple has terminated the contract that Xnor.ai had with the United States Government.
Xnor.ai, which is now Apple, says goodbye to Project Maven
El Maven project It is one of the projects that the United States Department of Defense is working on. Years ago they realized the Lots of information that they had: recordings, photographs and other types of data that were impossible to analyze by people. This gave birth to the Maven project: using the artificial intelligence and maching learning to analyze data and detect highly relevant data.
Other companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have also worked for the US Government on this same project. However, Google employees issued a letter demanding the termination of the company's participation in the project because some underlying interests could be related to the detection of targets and issuance of execution orders by drones.
La startup, un fabricante de software de inteligencia artificial llamado Xnor.ai, había estado involucrado en el Proyecto Maven, un esfuerzo del Departamento de Defensa de los EE. UU. para utilizar software de inteligencia artificial para analizar imágenes capturadas por drones militares. Apple adquirió Xnor.ai recientemente y decidió terminar el contrato con el Pentágono.
The Information assures that Xnor.ai participated in the Maven project of the Pentagon. However, days after the purchase of the company by Apple, they have decided stop participating. This could be due to the philosophy and principles of the Big Apple, always away from direct relationships with governments and much less with projects that could be aimed at analyzing objectives.